For years now, the Catholic Archdiocese of New York has paid for employees’ birth control

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May 27, 2013 at 11:17 AM

HERE‘s a bit of hypocrisy:

As the nationís leading Roman Catholic bishop, Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan [above] of New York has been spearheading the fight against a provision of the new health care law that requires employers, including some that are religiously affiliated, to cover birth control in employee health plans.

But even as Cardinal Dolan insists that requiring some religiously affiliated employers to pay for contraception services would be an unprecedented, and intolerable, government intrusion on religious liberty, the archdiocese he heads has quietly been paying for such coverage, albeit reluctantly and indirectly, for thousands of its unionized ...

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Pat Cunningham

HERE‘s a bit of hypocrisy:

As the nationís leading Roman Catholic bishop, Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan [above] of New York has been spearheading the fight against a provision of the new health care law that requires employers, including some that are religiously affiliated, to cover birth control in employee health plans.

But even as Cardinal Dolan insists that requiring some religiously affiliated employers to pay for contraception services would be an unprecedented, and intolerable, government intrusion on religious liberty, the archdiocese he heads has quietly been paying for such coverage, albeit reluctantly and indirectly, for thousands of its unionized ...